Distance Control Ladder Chipping Tips

In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers a ladder drill to help improve your distance control when you chip.

Transcript

00:00 So a brilliant drill to help you with distance control especially on those longer putts if

00:08 you're somebody who tends to hit the ball to get it to get to the flag on long putts

00:11 this will be brilliant for you. You don't want to hit the ball if you're working out

00:16 that a little putt is going to be a little hit and a big putt is going to be a big hit

00:18 it's very hard to control how much hit to give it. Much easier to do length of stroke

00:24 so for that I tend to use this ladder drill. It also gives you a fantastic idea of the

00:28 pace of greens if you're visiting different courses. So the first one I'm going to do

00:33 is just going to be a very small tick tock so almost like a metronome in my head I've

00:37 got this one two rhythm tick tock. I'm not going to look to see where my balls go so

00:42 that I'm not influenced as to how hard to give it thumb. So keeping the same tempo the

00:47 first putt is very small tick tock the next putt slightly bigger tick tock the next putt

00:57 slightly bigger and the next putt is your bigger one. And what you should end up with

01:07 is a nice fairly even Stevens ladder all the way up the green. What you would then do is

01:12 you then remind yourself of the length of stroke that you took and you worked your way

01:16 back to your target that you started next to and that should really help with your distance

01:20 control.

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